Health suspender shirt



March25,1930. f H,w A.'RD 1 1,751,701

HEALTH SUSPENDER SHIRT Filed April 27, 1928 1 mom W. Laird Patented Mar. 25, 1930 UNITED HERBERT W. LAIRD, F TAMPA, FLORIDA HEALTH SUSPENDEB SHIRT Application filed April 27',v

This invention relates to shirts and has for its principal object the provision of a simple and efficient construction by which the shirt may perform not only its usual function as an upper garment but may also'serve as the supporting means for trousers. V

In warm weather and in certain occupations, many men wish to dispense with coats, but when the coat is laid aside, certain difii- 1o culties arise which the present invention is intended to overcome.

Trousers are the standard nether garments for men and in present customonly three 7 common methods are in use to prevent them from slipping down from the waist :The

waist band may be made tightif thewearer has wide hips and a relatively narrow waist;

a tight belt may be used to confine the upper portion of the trousers above the hips; or :0 suspenders may be worn. The tight waistband and tight belt are uncomfortable in warm weather and unsatisfactory for stout men and men with small hips. Suspenders worn outside wrinkle the shoulders of a shirt, cause it to pull up between the back straps, and to many, appear unsightly. V] cm under the shirt, especially if in contact with the skin, suspenders cause chafing and discomfort.

It is an object of the present invention to eliminate the tight belt and the tight waist band, and to secure better health and greater comfort by supporting the weight of the trousers from the shoulders. A further object of the invention is to render separate suspenders unnecessary by providing at each side a washable strip, which may be made of the same material as the shirt and concealed by being fastened inside the shirt to the arm hole seam at the usual side seam beneath the arm.

It has been suggested, in patentto Potterf, 1,288,673, dated December 24, 1918, to use straps secured to the under-arm seams inside a shirt as a means for supporting the athletic type of undergarments where no coat or vest are worn, and it is obvious that 1928. Serial No. 273,411.

and Fig. 2 is a front View of a preferred embodiment of the invention, shown as in use.

The drawing illustrates a preferred embodiment of the invention in which a strap a, which may be of the same fabric as that used for. the body of the shirt, but preferably threeplyor four-ply for greater strength, is secured near one end to the arm hole seam at the side seam b on the inside of the shirt. The strap has a button hole 0 for use upon a button on the side of the trousers, preferably upon the inside of the top band where such buttons are commonly placed for certain types of under-the-shirt suspenders especially where belts are also to be used.

The shirt is provided with a hole for the strap a at the side seam beneath the point of attachment of the strap, through which the free end of the strap a may be drawn outside 7 of the shirt, the hole being low enough to f allow theshirt to hang free in the blouse eifect commonly desired, when the strap is buttoned on to the trouser band.

A second hole 6 is also formed in the strap at a point farther from the arm hole than the hole 0, for use with trousers having a lower waist band, the shirt having a second hole f farther from the arm hole than the hole cZ, through which the free end 9 of the strap a may be drawn when the hole 6 is to be used.

I claim:

A shirt having on each side a strap secured near one end to the arm hole seam at the side seam inside the shirt, thestrap being provided with two button holes at diiferent distances from the arm hole and the shirt being provided on each side with two holes through which the free end of the strap may be drawn, at the side seam at different distances from the arm hole.

HERBERT W. LAIRD.

a shirt constructed as herein described is capable of that use also.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side View 

